Happy fractured birthday, America!
America’s 250th unfolds through competing visions of patriotism, extreme heat and weather and large-scale events
Swift-Kelce: A wedding that stopped NYC
Swifties got their desired season finale of Taylor Swift's romance, a private wedding amid a citywide spectacle
Super easy summer corn and dumplings
Frozen dumplings, sweet corn, coconut milk and miso turn into the kind of shortcut dinner worth bragging about
"Blow Out" exposes the real American way
The 45th anniversary of Brian De Palma's film meets America's 250th, proving corruption is as American as apple pie
Imagining the 250th in Kamala’s America
A celebration of what could have been if the 2024 election had gone differently
The war that defined America
The Barbary War was an early indicator of American imperialism that we're still dealing with today
Unaffordable affordable housing
A $15 billion federal tax credit helps developers build homes that are no cheaper than the market rate
McConnell's current ongoing health scare
New statements affirm senator's ongoing health issues and hospitalization after emergency cardiac arrest in June
Louis C.K.'s "redemption" is complete
The supposedly disgraced comic's mainstream return proves that expecting true accountability is the real joke
How private equity destroyed bowling
A class-action suit against Lucky Strike Entertainment is a sad coda to the end of bowling
Half of Americans in extreme heat zone
Dangerous heat dome disrupts American celebrations in Midwest and East Coast with travel delays and health problems
I went to jail to celebrate the Fourth
America's 250th birthday is nothing like its bicentennial
Blue cities save the 250th from Trump
Christina Aguilera, Chris Stapleton and Jelly Roll — real stars — headline July Fourth parties in liberal towns
Prairieland brings war on terror home
Protesters at ICE's Prairieland facility recieved far harsher sentences than anyone from Jan. 6's violent mob
The secretive Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is deciding more consequential rulings than ever before in secret
Media has a medical blind spot with GOP
The lengthy absences of Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. Tom Kean Jr. raise a congressional double standard
The Swift wedding stakeout
Forklifts, food deliveries and covered crates have become must-see celebrity news.
"Struggle Meals" grows up
Frankie Celenza returns with a season about wasting less, improvising more and redefining what it means to struggle
Kylie Jenner can't redeem AI glasses
Meta recruited a celebrity to make smart glasses feel safe for women. They aren't
Trump didn't learn a first-term lesson
Under pressure and facing historically low approval ratings, the president is behaving as erratically as ever
SCOTUS split on birthright citizenship
The ruling was a revealing moment for the future of the court
Unlimited political spending is here
The Supreme Court has killed one of the last checks on election spending
Trump ducks questions on crypto profits
The president said he "doesn't get involved" with the memecoin that bears his name
MAGA turns SCOTUS loss into a win
The Court's birthright citizenship ruling is fueling the right-wing media machine ahead of the midterms